Google has made several changes to its gun emoji over the years, starting with a black handgun in 2012, a vintage pistol in 2013, then revolvers in 2014 and 2017, and now, a water gun.

Twitter has now followed Apple’s lead in changing its pistol emoji to a harmless, bright green water gun. ... But Apple and Samsung perhaps hold more weight when it comes to where things are headed.

Twitter has announced a number of changes in its Twemoji 2.5 update. Perhaps, most significantly, following the lead of several companies including Apple, WhatsApp, and Samsung, the pistol will ...

Microsoft is changing its toy gun emoji to a revolver — the exact opposite of Apple By Matt Weinberger 2016-08-05T16:37:23Z ...

The World Emoji Day on July 17 marked the eleventh annual global celebration of the event. The subsequent day, July 18, marks the day X (Twitter) decided it was a good idea to revert the water gun ...

In fall, when the new version of its operating system rolls out, what was previously a pistol emoji will be replaced by a green squirt gun. In its announcement about the new set of emojis , Apple ...

On July 18, X employee @yacineMTB announced that they had made the change back to the gun emoji on the X website. "Fixed on web, soon to be fixed in rendering on mobile!" Elon Musk said in a reply ...

Last week, Apple made a small but significant update to the emoji set used in upcoming iOS 10 and macOS Sierra software updates. The company changed the handgun emoji, first added to the Unicode ...

When Apple users update to iOS 10, the pistol emoji will be gone, and in its place they’ll find a lime green water gun. Where there once was a deadly firearm, there's now a cartoon of one of the ...

According to Emojipedia, a search engine for emojis, Google is rolling out an update to Android users to replace the handgun emoji with a water gun. Google could not be immediately reached for ...

Apple has historically been a bit conservative about the more violent emoji—for quite a while, the gun, knife, and a few others were excluded from the macOS emoji picker even though the OS could ...

The squirt gun emoji change comes alongside “more than 100” other changes to Apple’s emoji, including more options for skin tones, more women in diverse professional roles, ...